COVID-19 Research – Tackling Evidence Gaps
Backgrounder
To continue to respond to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and around the world, additional research is needed. The Government of Canada, through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), is providing $25.2M to support 52 research projects aimed to further improve our understanding of COVID-19 and tackle persistent evidence gaps linked to this disease.
Led by researchers from across the country, the new COVID-19 projects will focus on topics such as variants of the virus, vaccine development and uptake, testing, mental health, and the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is having specific impacts on women, racialized populations, and Métis, Inuit and First Nations Peoples. The findings will provide decision-makers with guidance to improve the health of our populations.
| Researcher | Research Institution | Project Title | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Pike | B.C. Children's Hospital | The unintended consequences of implementing stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Violence outcomes in children and youth in Canada | $267,750 |
| Jeffrey Meyer | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | Imaging Neuroinflammation In COVID-19 and Persistent Depression With/Without Other Neuropsychiatric Symptoms | $761,175 |
| Carolina Bottari | Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal | Brain Injury Pandemic Preparedness: Optimizing Community Strategies | $218,025 |
| Marie-Pierre Sylvestre | Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal | Coping strategies and mental health: quantitative and qualitative insight into the COVID-19 experience in young adults | $457,422 |
| Etienne Caron | Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine | Deciphering the immunopeptidomic landscape of COVID-19 disease | $100,000 |
| Alain Brunet | CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal-Douglas Hospital | Provision of services for trauma- and stressor-related (TSR) disorders during a pandemic: Investigating the Utility of Reconsolidation Therapy Delivered Online | $240,975 |
| Denys Khaperskyy | Dalhousie University | Molecular mechanisms of host shutoff by respiratory viruses and their contribution to viral pathogenesis | $573,750 |
| Maryline Vivion | Institut national de santé publique du Québec | Covid-19 et infodémie : pratiques informationnelles de groupes en situation de vulnérabilité à la COVID -19 au Québec en contexte de pandémie. | $153,000 |
| Peter Tanuseputro | Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences | Investigating the Impact of Cannabis Retail Policies on Health Harms and Benefits | $382,500 |
| Jennifer Foster | IWK Health Centre | Restricted family presence in the PICU during the COVID-19 pandemic: Understanding impact, experience, and stakeholder priorities | $332,775 |
| Alan Barkun | McGill University Health Centre | Digestive endoscopy in the era of COVID19: An opportunity for optimizing timely equitable care during the pandemic and beyond | $784,125 |
| Andrea Brignardello-Petersen | McMaster University | Living network meta-analysis and rapid recommendations for the treatment of COVID-19 | $1,365,525 |
| Evelyne Durocher | McMaster University | Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on Ontario long-term care and retirement home residents' health, well-being and function | $115,000 |
| Dionne Gesink | Moyo Health and Community Services | Sexual Health and STI Prevention For Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) In Suburban Cities | $393,975 |
| Camilla Zimmermann | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre | Palliative care at the end of life among patients with cancer before and during the COVID-19 pandemic | $423,045 |
| Maziar Divangahi | Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre | Developing a novel vaccine against COVID-19 | $569,925 |
| Nitika Pai | Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre | Evaluation of a digital, rapid self-sampling strategy for individuals with suspected COVID-19 infection in South Africa and India | $378,675 |
| Cecile Rousseau | Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre | Social polarization and behavioral intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-site study of risk and protective factors in Canadian youth | $240,975 |
| Anne Harris | Ryerson University | Bicyclist and pedestrian crashes in Ontario: Detection and comparison of health outcomes between police-reported collisions and injury health care records | $325,125 |
| Linda Rothman | Ryerson University | The Effect of COVID-19 Policies on Road Traffic Injury Among Vulnerable Road Users in Canadian Cities | $416,925 |
| Kora Debeck | Simon Fraser University | Investigating the unique experiences and needs of youth and young adults who use drugs during the dual crises of overdose and COVID-19 | $759,033 |
| Robert Fowler | Sunnybrook Research Institute | The Canadian Severe Acute Respiratory Infection, Prospective, Perpetual Observational Study: Informing Clinical Care and the Public Health Response | $455,175 |
| Samira Mubareka | Sunnybrook Research Institute | SARS-CoV-2 genotype-dependent pathogenesis and transmission | $100,000 |
| Ann Burchell | Unity Health Toronto | Burden of COVID-19 among people living with HIV in Ontario | $768,825 |
| Tara Gomes | Unity Health Toronto | Understanding Opioid Use and Harms among First Nations People in Ontario: Integrating Administrative Data with Guidance from Communities | $1,158,975 |
| Patricia O'Campo | Unity Health Toronto | COVID-19 and Precarious Employment (COPE) | $302,175 |
| Marc Servant | Université de Montréal | Regulation of innate antiviral defenses through Interleukin-17 receptor D (IL-17RD) | $757,350 |
| Kim Lavoie | Université du Québec à Montréal | The association between COVID-19-related attitudes, concerns and behaviours in relation to public health policies: A behavioural science approach to optimising policy strategies to improve health, economic and quality of life outcomes (the iCARE Study). | $638,775 |
| Rinat Nissim | University Health Network | Quality of Death in Hospital and Bereavement Outcomes in the COVID-19 Era | $294,525 |
| Shokrollah Elahi | University of Alberta | Deciphering immune responses in COVID-19 patients to identify immune correlates of protection and susceptibility for targeted therapeutics | $1,071,000 |
| Carole Anne Estabrooks | University of Alberta | The impact of the COVID-l9 Pandemic on long term care home staff and residents | $756,890 |
| Vera Mazurak | University of Alberta | Feeding EPA and DHA Improve Clinical Symptoms Associated with COVID-19 Infection | $344,250 |
| Gavin Oudit | University of Alberta | Pathogenesis of COVID-19 mediated Cardiovascular Complications: Therapeutic Applications | $875,925 |
| Sangita Sharma | University of Alberta | Assessing attitudes, barriers, and opportunities for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination (HPVV) to inform, develop, implement, and evaluate a culturally appropriate program for increasing utilization and addressing vaccination hesitancy in Arctic Canadian Indigenous communities | $2,103,750 |
| Peter Berman | University of British Columbia | Upstream determinants of effective COVID-19 response: tools development and application through a case study in British Columbia | $118,575 |
| Eric Jan | University of British Columbia | Discovery of small molecules targeting SARS-CoV-2 frameshifting using a rapid yeast platform | $445,230 |
| Sarka Lisonkova | University of British Columbia | All-cause and cause-specific acute morbidity attributable to Covid-19 epidemic, severe Covid-19 symptoms, and adverse birth outcomes in Canada. | $168,300 |
| Honglin Luo | University of British Columbia | Repurposing an FDA-approved anti-gout drug for the treatment of COVID-19 | $562,275 |
| Joseph Puyat | University of British Columbia | Short and Long Term impact of COVID-19 on mental health and wellbeing of health workers in Pakistan | $302,175 |
| Tavis Campbell | University of Calgary | Developing and evaluating an online intervention to improve the uptake and maintenance of protective behaviours against COVID-19 among young adults in Canada | $271,575 |
| Adam Cheng | University of Calgary | Impact of Aerosol Box Use on Patterns of Healthcare Provider and Environmental Contamination during Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures: A Multicenter Study | $248,625 |
| Claudio Rigatto | University of Manitoba | A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of a CKD specific telemonitoring platform to minimize adverse outcomes in high risk CKD patients. | $562,275 |
| Roberta Woodgate | University of Manitoba | Making Visible the Life Stories of Families of Children who are Immunocompromised during COVID-19 | $358,594 |
| JianLi Wang | University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research | Predicting perceived and unmet mental health needs in the populations | $137,700 |
| Rébecca Robillard | University of Ottawa | How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the mental and physical health of Indigenous people in Canada: Taking stock of challenges, needs and factors of resilience in the context of a global crisis | $168,300 |
| Tarun Reddy Katapally | University of Regina | CO-Away: Implementation and Evaluation of Digital Health Solutions for Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance, and Data Sovereignty | $554,434 |
| Cynthia Jardine | University of The Fraser Valley | Mitigating the Effects of Epidemic/Pandemic Outbreaks on Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers and Farm Operations in British Columbia | $348,075 |
| Rudolf Ehrhardt | University of Toronto | Targeting the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using an ancient antibody system | $229,500 |
| Rupert Kaul | University of Toronto | Defining the impact of pre-existing host immunity on SARS-CoV-2 incidence and COVID-19 clinical outcome | $489,600 |
| Mark Oremus | University of Waterloo | Social Isolation and Cognitive Function in Middle-aged and Older Adults: A Prospective Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging | $195,075 |
| S.M. Mansour Haeryfar | University of Western Ontario | Mobilizing the Antiviral Capacities of MAIT Cells to Combat COVID-19: From Fundamental Immunology to Vaccine Optimization and Immunotherapy | $1,032,750 |
| Fiona Webster | University of Western Ontario | Chronic pain, poverty, addiction and mental health in a time of pandemic | $160,650 |
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